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Industry Perspectives Focus on Efficiency

Efficiency in the data center was the common theme for this week's Industry Perspectives columns.-- all the articles can be used to guide you towards improving efficiency in these aspects of data center operation.

Efficiency in the data center was the common theme for this week's Industry Perspectives columns. From increasing your efficiency through more effective storage, monitoring such as eBay's new monitoring dashboard, selection of the right drives to be more compatible with compute and storage, consolidation of the data center to the move to use water more efficiently, all the guest articles from industry experts can be used to guide you towards improving efficiency in these aspects of data center operation. Enjoy reading!

Why eBay’s Digital Service Efficiency Changes the Game - eBay has provided a role model, which is organized around common metric, to optimize the overall effectiveness of IT, and has openly disclosed the metrics and indicators used to do it. This is a step forward in transparency, writes Winston Saunders of Intel.

Six Tips for Selecting HDD and SSD Drives- Today selecting the right drives can be a challenge, says Gary Watson of Nexsan. This article offers six tips for navigating through this complexity to help you pick the right solutions for your needs.

Consolidation: Shrinking Our Way to Data Center 3.0- Like everything in the IT industry, there is no magic solution to all situations. However, the trend toward shrinking, just-in-time, data center deployments is growing, and becoming a significant option in the arsenal of data center operators, writes Antonio Piraino of ScienceLogic.